The story of Slayer guitarist Kerry King’s short but whirlwind Megadeth stint
King played guitar for Megadeth’s first five shows in 1984 – but the partnership was never going to last
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Robby Krieger and John Densmore remember life with Jim Morrison and tell the story of The Doors
Sixty years after The Doors took audiences on a destination-unknown thrill ride, Robby Krieger and John Densmore tell the band's wild story
Skin on Britpop, Lemmy and 30 years of Skunk Anansie
From Oasis attending their early gigs to hanging out with David Bowie and Lemmy, Skin became a true rock icon in the 90s
How Journey found Steve Perry and made Infinity, the album that set them on the road to superstardom
Journey were a noodling jazz-rock band with a cult following – until they discovered Steve Perry and made 1978’s Infinity
The epic story of Pink Floyd’s Live At Pompeii, the prog classic recorded next door to a volcano
Lights! Camera! Chaos! How Pink Floyd made their 1972 album Live At Pompeii
Behind the scenes on Guns N' Roses' first trip to Japan
Classic Rock presents the first in an exclusive series of excerpts from former Guns N' Roses manager Alan Niven’s forthcoming book Sound N’ Fury
The Darkness: Every album ranked from worst to best
Updated! Few bands do OTT rock’n’roll quite like The Darkness - and here’s where to start with their back catalogue
Bumblefoot on wrangling famous guitarists, his new album, and the celebrity hot sauce community
One-time GN’R guitarist Ron ‘Bumblefoot’ Thal has a finger in more than one pie – and sauce to put on it
“Robert Fripp always has an excuse not to play”: Toyah Willcox is more than Mrs King Crimson
From post-punk icon and award-winning female solo artist to becoming regarded as just the prog mastermind’s wife, her rebellious creative energy is fired by Roxy Music, Devo, The Tubes and all things off the wall
The Pretenders albums you should listen to... and one to avoid
Navigating a path through classic pop, soul, garage-rock and rock’n’roll, Chrissie Hynde steered the Pretenders to major success - and these are their best albums
Steven Wilson on being a control freak, the wonder of space, Porcupine Tree and more
Steven Wilson's new album The Overview promises to take listeners "on an incredible journey from Earth to the other side of the universe"
The best new rock songs you need to hear right now
Featuring Skunk Anansie, Gotthard, Fishbone and five other horsemen and horsewomen of the rockpocalypse
Tim Smith’s Cardiacs story will end with long-awaited final album LSD
Members of the band who influenced Steven WIlson, Radiohead, Opeth, Andy Partridge and more explain what they did and why it mattered
The epic life and career of John Paul Jones, the heartbeat of Led Zeppelin and so much more
Crack session musician, in-demand producer, one quarter of the world’s biggest rock band – ex-Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones has done it all
The man who was asked to replace James Hetfield as singer in Metallica – and turned it down
In 1983, Metallica almost got a new singer
How Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin and a modern blues icon came together to form Black Country Communion
Black Country Communion’s second album, BCC2, established them as one of the greatest supergroups of the 21st century
The violent, bloody birth of the Bay Area thrash scene
How a handful of kids from Northern California changed the world
Dave Lee Roth or Sammy Hagar? A forensic examination of who was Van Halen’s best singer
Sorry, Gary Cherone…
The unhinged story of Aerosmith’s Draw The Line, the album that sent them crashing off the rails
Drugs, dysfunction and 1977’s Draw The Line album sent Aerosmith into a tailspin that would take a decade to pull out of
